Are you sick of seeing your team treated as a sausage machine for turning user stories into code? Can your developers only talk about how long something will take, or how exactly it will be built? In this talk, I’ll explore how to get your team focused on delivering customer value instead by: • Asking questions that refine stories to deliver value more effectively, rather than estimating story points and technical tasks. • Building and refining backlogs around customer journeys, rather than breaking down epics into prioritised lists of stories. • Creating a culture of continuous discovery and experimentation, rather than delivering a fixed roadmap of features.

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Points Don’t
Mean Prizes
Adrian Howard (@adrianh)
quietstars.com

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36. Three Questions
That Can Help

52. Value questions still
make stories smaller

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69. Outcomes
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70. Outcomes
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71. Outcomes
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Assumptions★

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73. Outcomes
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74. OKRs

76. Objective
Qualitative + Time Bound + Actionable
Key Results
Quantitative + Steer + Set by those responsible

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80. Impact Mapping

82. https://www.impactmapping.org/example.html

83. Opportunity-
Solution Trees

84. https://www.producttalk.org/2016/08/
opportunity-solution-tree/

85. https://www.producttalk.org/2016/08/opportunity-solution-tree/

86. Wardley Maps

87. https://medium.com/wardleymaps

88. https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/02/an-introduction-to-wardley-value-chain.html

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93. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tabulating_Machine_Co_Organization_Chart.jpg
Conway’s Law
"Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which
are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

94. DO LESS
TOGETHER
MORE OFTEN
to do
MORE
Adrian Howard (@adrianh)
quietstars.com

95. Questions?
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